Fisher-Price Elmo's World Talking Cell Phone

This is so easy anyone can do it. My husband travels quite a bit, and since I can't stand to have things just laying around broken, and I for sure won't throw anything away, I've been left to figure out how to fix things on my own. If I can do it so can you! I decided to figure out what was up with this Elmo phone once and for all. After taking it apart I found that there are two metal tabs inside the slit( in the back of the phone where you had to remove the plastic tab when you took it out of the box) and when they touch the volume of the phone is lowered. When they don't touch the phone goes back to the regular audible volume. To FIX IT : The easy option A, which doesn't require you to take anything apart, is to take the piece of plastic from the original box (the one that you had to pull out in the first place to lower the volume "for the children's safety" and to cut it so that it fits into the slit without sticking out so the kids can't pull on it. Option B is to remove 6 screws (1.upper left hand corner under antenna, 2. upper right hand corner next to slit, 3.screw holding the battery cover on, remove batteries you will find 4 and 5 there. Set all of these aside. Look on the inside of the back cover where the slit comes through You'll two small pieces of metal, the top piece screwed on with a white wire coming out. This is the last screw to be removed and #6. Remove and discard. Clip the white wire where it it saudered/ connected and you can throw away the little metal piece. It is NOT needed for the toy to operate in anyway, it was only used to lower the volume. Once you've done this you can replace the lid put the screws and batteries back in and you'll have a working and AUDIBLE Elmo Phone!!

I bought this toy for my 10 month old. We played with it in the store and she really enjoyed it. The way the eyes open when you flip the phone open, the picture of Elmo and Dorothy, etc. are all very cute. My one complaint is that after removing the "volume control" tab from the back of the phone, the volume plummeted. Now, I am a mom that absolutely hates loud kiddie toys. Most electronic children's toys are too loud, in my opinion. But this phone is not even at a nice, quiet level. The volume is just way too low. There is a note in the instructions that states that the volume is supposed to be lowered after the tab is removed, and that the phone is not defective when this happens. We took the toy to the grocery store and could barely hear it at all. My niece has this same toy and the volume is the same as ours. It would have been better if FP put a manual volume control on the toy instead. Bottom line: although fun, the toy must be played with in a very quiet room in order to be heard.

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We bought this for our 1 year old who loves to play with remote controls and cell phones, hoping it would distract her from the real ones. She loves to press the buttons and pretend she's talking when Elmo speaks. Each button makes 3 or 4 different sounds, depending on how many times you press it. Opening the mouth piece causes the eyes at the top of the phone to open, while I thought this might be an area that breaks, it seems to be quite durable. Our child also likes to open the eyes with her fingers, and this does not seem to have damaged the toy in any way. Like most toys for our baby, it has had several drops from the high chair onto the hard floor, and continues to work just fine. Overall, we are pleased with this purchase, and this along with the Elmo remote control we purchased seem to have worked in distracting our baby from the real remote and cell phone. We would definitely purchase this again.

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IF YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM I DO, THEN LISTEN UP. I THREW AWAY THE BOX THAT THE PHONE CAME IN, SO I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GO BY. I SAW A REVIEW ON HERE BY A LADY THAT SAID THAT IF YOU LEFT A VERY SMALL PIECE OF THE PLASTIC FROM THE ORIGINAL BOX IN THE LITTLE TINY SLIT IN THE TOP RIGHT HAND SIDE ON THE BACK OF THE PHONE, THEN IT WOULD STAY LOUD, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A BOX!!! SO I TOOK A BREAD TIE, AND STUCK IT IN THE BACK OF THE PHONE, WHERE THE LITTLE SLIT IS. I CUT IT SO THAT JUST A LITTLE WAS HANgING OUT, AND FOLDED IT DOWN SO IT WOULD LAY FLAT ON THE PHONE, AND TAPED IT..NOW IT WORKS PERFECT!!!!!!!!!! SO, ANYONE WHO EATS BREAD CAN FIX THIS PROBLEM..LOL..I HOPE I'VE HELPED, ...

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My wife picked this toy up a few months ago for our twins to use. When we took it out of the box and removed the Volume Tag, the volume decreased to an almost "too faint to hear" level. So the kids basically ignored it. Today I decided to "fix" the thing. I removed the four screws holding it together, separated the top and bottom halves, then placed a tiny folded-up piece of cardboard (paper will do) into the little square "volume control" inside the device. Once you separate the metal contacts, the volume goes back to the level it was when it was in the box! It was very easy to do and only took me about 15 minutes. All you need is a Philips screwdriver and a tiny piece of cardboard, plastic or paper.

Now the kids LOVE it!

I hope this helps someone out there...